Another Hurricane!

Wow! What a wild month for weather. Right now I am watching the news as Hurricane Rita approaches the Texas/Louisiana Coast. It is still about 6 hours away from making landfall, but there is already some damage occuring in many area's. The levee's in New Orleans have been breached again, so parts of the city are flooding again! Luckily all of the people are not there this time except for the reporters that continue to put themselves in harms way. I think it is amazing what Mother Nature can do. A lot of people have evacuated the coast after seeing the devastation that Katrina caused just a month ago. People are definitely taking hurricanes more seriously, which is good.
Here are some pitcures that I thought were interesting.

(Piture 1: A monument, dedicated to the over 6,000 killed in an unnamed hurricane in the year 1900, is seen on the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston, Texas September 23, 2005. Texas expects catastrophic damage from Hurricane Rita, including the flooding of the entire coastal city of Port Arthur, a senior state official said on Friday. The surf in the background was rapidly rising as Hurricane Rita approached. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)


(NOAA satellite image of Hurricane Rita taken at 11:15 a.m. EDT on September 23, 2005, as the storm continues moving closer to the Gulf Coast. (NOAA/Reuters)

(Homes and vehicles lie submerged in the Ninth Ward by new flooding caused by a breach of the levee on the east side of the Industrial Canal as Hurricane Rita moves towards land in New Orleans September 23, 2005. Two levee breaches have occurred on the west side, and one on the east side of the canal, allowing flood waters to flow back into New Orleans. REUTERS/J.P. Moczulski)